Date and time service protective-perforation recording check and receipt



A. N. E. 8008.

DATE AND TIME SERVICE PROTECTIVE PERFORATION RECORDING CHECK AND RECEIPT.

APPLICATION FTLED SEPT. 19. I917. RENEWED JUNE 25, I919.

1,330,368, Patented Feb. 10, 1920,

OWNER'S NAME.

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s Name Guests Name ll 0 owxzRs mm.

OWNER'S NAME. F g OWNERS NAME. 5 N

Guest's Name 1 PersonB Persons OWNERS NAME.

OWNER! NAME.

* ZQE A eUs'r n. BOOS, or new roan, N. Y.

RECORDING CHECK AND Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Feb. 10, 1920.

Application filed September 19, 1917, Serial No. 192,059. Renewed June 25, 1919. Serial No. 306,714.

To all whom it may concern:

perforation recording checks and receipts,

and particularly to such checks and receipts for use in restaurants or other businesses where there is opportunity for fraud, mis takes, overcharges, and the like. The present check is designed with a view to keeping an accurate record of the services rendered, and the time of such service, in such a manner as to protect the guest and the proprietor against any surreptitious practices which have been possible with the usual form of checks.

Another object is to provide such a check which will enable changes and deductions to be conveniently made, and which will provide for both the proprietor and the guest a complete and accurate record of the transaction, such record including the number of the waiter and the check. A further object is-to provide for a protective perforation being made in the check after completion of the service, by an authorized person who before giving the receipt to the guest checks up the entries thereon. such a check which is animprovement of, and possesses certain novel features and advantages over the form of check disclosed in my co-pending application Serial No. 34,784, filed June 18th, 1915.

With these and other objects in view, an embodiment of my invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, and this embodiment will be hereinafter more fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings, and the invention will be finally *tinguished. In the case of the check being used in a store, this space will contain the pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings;

Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved check ready for use and without entries thereon; I

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing entries thereon, and the time of ibeginning the service; p i

A further. object is to provide Fig. 3' shows the same at the completion i of the service, with the .total and time of completion stamped thereon, and a line of perforations made therein to enable the guests receipt portion to be separated there'- from; and

Fig. 4 shows the receipt portionseparated.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, and more particularly to Fig. 1 thereof, my improved check comprises a rectangular shaped piece of paper, cardboard or the like, such as is usually used for such checks, which at the beginning of the service is 'unperforated,

and without folds, creases or other weakening devices, thatis, the check is solid, flat and unbroken in form. The portions of the check indicated above the area or line of severance s constitutes the guests receipt portion, while the portion below constitutes the main body portion to be retainedby the proprietor. At the extreme upper portion of the check and within the guests receipt portion, there is provided space a designated in the illustrated embodiment Owners name. In actual practice, of course, this will contain the name of the establishment using the check.

Below the space a there is provided, a transverse portion divided into two spaces 6 and h, and atithe left hand portion of these spaces there are printed respectively the words Guestsname and the symbol Sufiicient space is left at the right of these designations to receive the guests name'and the total-amount of the order.

Another transverse portion is providedbelow the spaces a and b which is divided into three spaces 03,16 and 0. The space 01 contains the wordsv Waiter No. 1, or

other suitable designation to indicate the number, letter or other identifying char-. acter of the waiter, it being unders'toodthat in most restaurants, waiters are so 'd1s at the words 7' to separate the dollars 4O cient space is provided in front of the same to receive the number or persons waited upon.

'At the lower portion of the guests receipt portion, and at the upper portion of the main body portion there is provided a relativel 1 wide transverse aortion eXtend-.

ing above and below the area or line .9 divided into two spaces 2' and 1", the space 2' being smaller t ian the space 1. At the upper portion 01 the space i and within the guests receipt portion there are provided as 1 Time or first order, and in a similar portion within the space a there are provided as at g the words Time at the end of service. 7

The line or area-0t severance s is substan tially centrally or the space below the designations 7 and 9, so that adjacent spaces of substantially equal size are provided both in the guests receipt and the main body portion for receiving time markings, as hereinafter more fully pointed out.

The main body portion of the check is provided intermediate its ends with a plurality or transversely ruled lines, divided into'three vertically disposed spaces 39, j and Z, the spaces j and Z being separated by a double line. The space 79 is provided at its upperend with the words \Vaiter No. 1,

and Deduct, the space p being for the en- 1 try of amounts to be deducted from the order, such deductions being occasioned in case of returns, changes, overcharges or the like. The space y is for the entry of the items ordered, the charge tor the items being placed at the right hand side of the check in the space Z, a line j being provided and cents.

The lower portion ofthe main body is separated from the portions 32, j and Z by a double line, and is divided into three transverse portions, the upper of which is divided into spaces g, If and m. The space (,1 is disposed beneath the space p and is adapted to receive the total amount of the deductions. The space t has the word Persons printed therein and a space is provided in front to receive the number or persons served, this being the proprletors record. The space we contams the Word Total and the symbol and at the right suflicient space is provided receive the total amount of-the order, this 7 being directly beneath the individual charges of the items. 1

The intermediate portion is likewise divided into three spacesc, wand 72., the space 1; containing the words Waiter No. 1, the space to contaming the words Check N 0.

' 1, and the space n containing the abbreviation Dedt and the symbol The space 7% it will be noted, is immediately beneath the space on and is adapted to receive the total deduction, which "may then 'be subtracted from the total in the space an, the remainder being placed in the space 0 or the lower portion, in which there is printed. the word Total and the symbol SS. ing space a of the lower portion has the owners name printed therein. r

. In use, the guests name may be/placed in the space 6, that is the guest paying the check, and the number of persons is placed in the spaces 0 and t, as at l and 2.. The or der is taken, the items being placed in the The. remainspace j, and the amounts at the right in the space Z as at 5, and thereupon the time of the first order, or the beginning of the serv- -ice is placed in duplicate as at 3 and 4, in

the space 2' respectively above and below the imaginary line indicated by s, (Fig. 1) so that there is a time entry in both the receipt and body portion. Should there be any deductions, changes or the like, these are placed in the space 19. Then the service is completed, the total is placed in. the space at as at 7, and it there are any deductions, the total is placed both in spaces q and the space a, and after subtracting, the corrected total is placed in the space '0, and also in the space it of the receipt portion, as at 6. When the check is paid, the cashier or other person of authority stamps the time of completion of the service, including the date, in duplicate, as at 8 and 9, in the space 1", one entry above the line 8, in the receipt portion, and one being below the line .9 in the body portion. Thereupon, or simultaneously with the time entry the line or area of severance s is perforated as at 10. The receipt may then he severed from the main body portion, and

. handed to the guest. It will be noted that the check remains as a solid inseparable body and receipt portion when the same is actually. paid, and the receipt can only be made separable by the cashier or other person designated to perform this function.

The guests receipt portion shows the guest that he has paid his bill, and is a record of the place, time and date of the meal, the

number of persons fed and the price paid for the meal. The body portion is a complete record for the restaurant. With my ers check, the adjacent portions or" therticket and coupon being provided With spaces extending to both side extremities of said check and meanswithin said spaces appropriately designating said spaces to receive duplicating marks, one above the other indicating the time of beginning and completing a certain service, the adjacent portions of said ticket and coupon permitting the simultaneous entry of said duplicate marks, the said spaces extending to both side extremities providing laterally clear areas for the entry of said duplicate marks, a check number, and a Waiters number in lateral alinement on the guests receipt portion above said adjacent portions of said ticket and coupon, and on said Waiters check portion respectively, spaces for the entry of items on the Waiters check portion, and spaces appropriately designated for the entry of the total on said guests receipt portion and Waiters check portion respectively.

2. A service check for restaurants and the like, comprising a ticket and a coupon, the coupon bearing printed matter constituting the guests receipt portion, and the ticket bearing printed matter constituting a Waiters check, the adjacent portions of the ticket and coupon being provided with spaces extending to both side extremities, and means within said spaces appropriately designating said spaces to receive duplicate marks, one above the other indicating the time of beginning and completing a certain service,

, the adjacent ortions of said ticket and coupon permitting the simultaneous entry of said duplicate marks, the said spaces extend ing to both side extremities, providing laterally clear areas for the entry of said duplicate marks, a check number, and a Waiters number in lateral alinement on the guests receipt portion above said adjacent portions of said ticket and coupon, and on said waiters check portion respectively, spaces for the entry of items on the Waiters check portion, and spaces appropriately designated for the entry of the total on said guests receipt portion and waiters check portion respectively, said ticket and coupon being separable by means of a line of perforations disposed between said spaces adaptcd to receive duplicate marks.

3. A service check for restaurants and the like, comprising a ticket and a coupon, the coupon bearing printed matter constituting the guests receipt portion, and the ticket bearing printed matter constituting a Waiters check, the adjacent portions of the ticket and coupon being provided With spaces extending to both side extremities, and means Within said spaces appropriately designating said spaces to receive duplicate marks, one above the other indicating the time of beginning and completing a certain service, the adjacent portions of said ticket and coupon permitting the simultane ous entry of said duplicate marks, the said spaces extending to both side extremities, providing laterally clear areas for the entry of said duplicate marks, a check number, and a Waiters number in lateral alinement on the guests receipt portion above said adjacent portions of said ticket and coupon, and on said Waiters check portion respectively, spaces for the entry of items on the waiters check portion, and spaces appropriately designated for the entry of the total on said guests receipt portion and Waiters check portion respectively, said ticket and coupon adapted after the entry of said duplicate time marks to be made separable by means of a line of perforations, disposed between said spaces adapted to receive said duplicate marks.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name.

AUGUST N. E. Boos 

